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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think they’re going to do a lot, honestly. Elon musk is just a blowhard. If they had a real plan for huge cuts without chaos that would amount to political suicide, they would have done it. It’s the same as “repeal and replace.”[/quote]

Elon fired 70% of twitter. That is not just a blowhard[/quote]

And Twitter still exists and works.  Elon found that that number of people weren't necessary to run it.

Same with the Fed.

Yes there are some very vital and important jobs, but there are more that just plain aren't.[/quote]
Name the unimportant jobs that add up to $2 trillion.

Oh, and Twitter doesn’t work half the time now, most famously evidenced by it crashing when he tried to host an interview with Trump. It’s also lost a ton of traffic and is documented to be overrun with bots and fake accounts. (P***y in Bio anyone?)

Elon has said he wants to cut an amount that exceeds the entire discretionary budget. He would need to eliminate every agency, including the military, to accomplish that.[/quote]

What does add up to 2 trillion? Average federal worker makes 106k, 3 million workers. My calculator says that's 218 billion a year.[/quote]

The DOD or social security/ Medicare are the only things that could be eliminated to add up to huge government savings. [/quote]

I remember reading a CFRB report at some point that said that if you avoided cuts to spending on defense, veterans, Medicare, and Social Security (all of which no one wants to cut) you would need to cut all remaining spending by 85% to achieve a balanced budget over the course of a decade. [/quote]
As a percentage of GDP, discretionary spending is at a historical low, and that’s spending that includes Defense! In dollar amounts adjusted for inflation, it’s also been flat for 15 years.

Republicans love to whine about spending, but the growth is entirely due to Medicare and Social Security (plus the extra debt from their tax cuts).[/quote]

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